Trauma to children come from a variety of forms; witnessing violence
at home, in the streets and even through bullying. The most
devastating and longest lasting traumas are those which have a
direct threat to the child. There is no doubt that those who cause
direct harm to children cause
considerable pain and suffering. However based on proven
study data, we are now able to classify the worst into groups by
damage caused.

Those who rape and sodomize children cause the most damage to
society. Another known fact is this group will repeat their crimes
more than once, many will achieve over eighty victims in a life time
(We remain conservative on this as other studies have shown this
number to be much higher.) What is surprising is that those who rape
and sodomize children, especially those most violent, will
likely never be caught and prosecuted.

Victims traumatized by this group will likely never come forward
in due time as most states lack clear definition to the discovery
rule in their Statutes of Limitations. We have recently witnessed a
victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who by all means had every opportunity to
escape or at least seek help. The reality is that it was trauma that
kept that from happening. A question we might all ask; how old would
she have been before she was able to come forward on her own? Some
think never. Trauma changes brain functions and we have seen this
before with the fifteen year old Missouri boy, Shawn Hornbeck, who
had a bike to escape though remained with his captor.

In the cases above it was not the physical captivity, but a
mental one. The reality is that a victim does not need to be held
physically captive, to be captive. Worse is that those victims who
internalize, live the cruelest lives imaginable. Self destruction is
a life long quest and waking from the trauma many years into the
future begins another and even crueler one, the realization of a
life never lived. Some will wake in their forties, fifties, sixties
and others never.

The good news is that it is easy to prove those who raped and
sodomized children, mostly because they have many victims who can
identify them. Even more positive is that by enabling cases to move
forward, it triggers other victims to begin waking from their
traumas to seeking help.

The Worst of the Worst

Those who witness and remain silent, and especially those who cover up the
crimes are by all means the worst criminals of all. This group,
although they may have never have engaged in the crime, commit the
worst crimes against humanity. They are the enablers to those who
rape and sodomize to reaching their eightieth victim. It can be said
that those who raped where mentally ill, but those who helped in
covering up the crimes acted out in self interest over the lives of
traumatized children.

What kind of human being would it take to cover up such
horrendous crimes against children? No matter their stake in
covering up the crimes, to imagine they remained silent while a
child is raped or sodomized? To imagine they never went to the
rescue of a small child? What kind of human being could be so cold
hearted, selfish and so inhumane?

We must all remind ourselves that this is about sodomized and
raped children, there are NO excuses any reasonably thinking human
being could ever accept. This Bill protects us and our children, and
those who cause or aid in harm now pay the price. Why should we?

Civil Rights

The purpose of this Bill is not to deprive anyone of their civil
rights, but to strengthen them. We are not going back in time to
hold the worst criminals imaginable legally accountable for cases
that have come forward and judgments delivered. However, we can hold
them accountable for crimes not fully discovered yet due to mental
incompetence of the victim. Victim's mental readiness is too
important, or otherwise we might miss opportunities to gathering all
the details as a result of emotional and psychological
distress. Just as a victim in a coma would not be able to come
forward, so a victim traumatized is equally unable to come forward
due to mental illness. The mental illness blocks out the horrors,
without control, and the victim lives a pretend life that becomes
difficult to identify until it explodes. We have seen this on the
news time and again as those who caused damage were the least
likely.

Also, we are not changing statutes of limitations for crimes.
What we are doing is preserving the civil rights of victims by
giving them a chance to come forward when they are mentally capable
of emotionally dealing with the crime. After all, it would only fair
as our laws already provide a
Mental Competence
Rule, we only need to offer clarification to it giving the
victim ample time with help from their doctors. More often charges
are dropped because of extreme emotional stress on the victim,
leaving the criminal free to harm others. Without giving victims a
chance for stability, we may never find out about the worst
offenders who harm our children. Equally as important, this will
also preserve each and every citizens civil rights to the protection
we all deserve.

We must not excuse such horrendous crimes against our children
and society. Instead, we must hold those who committed the crimes,
along with those who help cover them up, fully accountable. There
are no time limits that magically arrive when victims are able to
establish mental readiness. Meanwhile there are also no time limits
when those who rape and sodomize children will stop. This is a
timeless crime as found with many who are seventy and eighty years
old and still committing their crimes of rape and cover up.

"Without your support,
it simply can't happen."

There are no Statutes of Limitations on the
pain and suffering of everyone.

Or for the lives lost by those who have committed suicide due to
mental illness caused.

Or for the victims who internalize and suffer a life time of pain.

Or on the taxes everyone pays to cover social programs and
lawlessness.

Or on our personal safety threatened.

Rape and Sodomy of children is the #1 cause to chaos in
society and those who help cover up commit the worst crimes against
humanity.